Fine line black tattoo on the outer side of a foot showing silhouettes of the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum and Big Ben above the word wanderlust in script.

Landmark skyline and wanderlust script on a foot

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A small black tattoo sits on the outer side of a foot, with three landmark silhouettes in a row: the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum and Big Ben. The word wanderlust is written in a thin cursive script beneath them, with the letters sitting on the same baseline as the skyline. The linework is fine and even, with no colour, and the bare skin and plain carpet behind the foot keep the focus on the design.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The umbrellas had been sorted by colour and the phone chargers by age when Ruth Gallagher opened the carrier bag from a chemist in Crewe and found three postcards held together with a perished elastic band. Paris, Rome and London. Each had a stamp on it, none had been posted, and on the back of each someone had written a single line in pencil.

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The Paris card said the lift was out again, so she had taken the stairs and counted them. The Rome card said the cats near the old arena were fatter than the guidebook claimed. The London card said Big Ben had stopped at twenty past four and nobody seemed to mind. Ruth read them twice beside the kettle. The handwriting leaned forward, the way people write on trains. She checked the log. The bag had come in during March and nobody had claimed it.

The chemist's receipt was still tucked inside, so she rang the number printed on it. A man answered with a flat, careful voice. His mother had bought those cards for a trip she kept meaning to take, he said, and she had moved into a flat above a launderette in Nantwich and no longer went anywhere. Ruth asked whether she should keep them.

"Post them," he said. "She'd want them out there more than in a drawer."

Ruth bought three second-class stamps from the machine by the ticket barrier. On the back of the London card, under the old pencil, she wrote that the stairs at the launderette were longer than they looked, and that the kettle was better than she had any right to expect. Then she slid all three into the red box on the platform wall and listened for the small, final sound of them landing.